Word: craige
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Craig climbed up the ladder of routine peacetime duty from Haiti to China, acquired the reputation of a steady, thoroughly professional soldier. His first wife was an invalid for a dozen years; during those years, Craig spent all his spare time at her bedside. He rarely appeared at officers' clubs. She died in 1943; he got the news just as he was about to go into battle at Bougainville. He married again in 1947, has become a contented homebody. Of an evening, he likes his wife to read to him from the poems of homespun versifier Edgar A. Guest...
What Makes a Marine. In postwar Japan, Craig spent several months teaching amphibious tactics to Douglas MacArthur's 1st Cavalry and 24th Infantry Divisions, now in Korea. From April 1949 to his departure for Korea, Craig was the 1st's assistant division commander at Camp Pendleton, Calif., in charge of training under bull-roaring Graves B. ("The Big E") Erskine, a stickler for perfection who "turned over" (i.e., relieved) 15 colonels in one year.* To marines, the fact that Craig survived under Erskine is the proof that he is good...
...companies ran off a cold-weather landing exercise in Alaska; a regiment put on an airlift assault on cactus-covered San Nicolas Island off the California coast. If & when the time comes for the U.S. units to break out of the beachhead in Korea, Craig's great store of amphibious know-how will come in handy for assault landings behind the North Korean lines...
...Best." Craig drives his men unflaggingly. They grumble about it, but they worship Craig. At Pendleton's Navy relief carnival last month, when Craig had already been ordered to sail for Korea with his combat team, a Marine corporal approached Mrs. Craig and said: "Excuse me, ma'am, but I'd like to talk to you, if you don't mind." As Mrs. Craig continues the story, "The man said he was a little drunk, and he was, but he wanted to say that he had been posted away from the brigade to another outfit. Then...
...Craig was moved to tears, and the corporal gallantly offered her his handkerchief. He went with Craig to Korea...